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Homecooked Salmon Teriyaki is Healthy and Delicious

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Homecooked Salmon Teriyaki is Healthy and Delicious

Everyone is trying to eat healthier these days, and when you can add a recipe as delicious as salmon teriyaki to your repertoire, it's always a plus. Once you learn good technique, it's not difficult to make, and you can pick up the ingredients from a Japanese or Chinese grocery store. Cooking at home allows you to control the ingredients, paying attention to any health needs like reducing sodium. If you're trying to have moist salmon, use chinook or Atlantic. But any salmon will work if those aren't available. The key to successful cooking is to cut the filets to the same thickness, so they cook evenly together.

Following cooking suggestions from experienced chefs will make your home-cooked salmon teriyaki turn out better. One trick is to use potato starch for the outside coating. It is excellent to help the cooked fish soak up the teriyaki flavor. Arrowroot or tapioca starch are possible alternatives but stay away from corn starch because it can be gummy. Soy sauce plays a significant role in the final flavor, so you want to use a good one or substitute tamari if you want a gluten-free recipe. High-quality sake is crucial, and use one that is good enough for drinking. Be wary of cooking sakes that often are flavored grain alcohol.

When it's time to make the teriyaki sauce, you can find hundreds of recipes online ranging from traditional to experimental. Generally speaking, the ones with equal parts soy sauce, sugar, and sake are the ones most people prefer. Most will tell you this is something you want to keep simple for the best results if you ask around among chefs. It's easy to find teriyaki sauce recipes with a long list of ingredients, but they may be distracting from the deliciousness of the core ingredients. The sugar will caramelize as you're making the sauce, so be suspicious about recipes adding thickeners.

Once you've filleted the salmon into pieces of equal thickness, pat it dry with paper towels. Enough moisture will remain to coat it with the potato starch. Add the oil to your wok before you heat it. Then add the salmon and fry it until it's translucent about halfway up, then flip it and do the same thing on the other side. Once you're done frying your fish, wipe the excess oil out of your wok and cook the sauce. Once it's finished, readd the salmon to the wok and stir gently until the filets are entirely coated with the sauce. If you want to add a garnish, you can top them with anything you choose.

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